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Canadian diver Mia Vallée bursts to bronze at world championships

It was a winding route for Canada’s Mia Vallée to land on the podium.

The Beaconsfield, Que., diver earned bronze in the women’s one-metre springboard final at the world aquatics championships on Wednesday in Budapest, Hungary.

Vallée only snuck into medal round, placing ninth in the morning’s preliminary heat to qualify for the 12-woman final with less than a four-point gap ahead of the 13th-place finisher.

But Vallée found her best when it counted most, even sitting in gold-medal position after three dives. Suddenly, it seemed like anything less than a podium appearance would count as a disappointment.

After four dives, eventual champion Li Yajie of China took control, moving 10 points ahead of the Canadian for the lead.

And in the fifth and final dive, American Sarah Bacon conjured just enough to leap past Vallée, who struggled with a score of 48.10, by five one-hundredths of a point and earn silver.

Vallée completed the final to take bronze with 276.60 points, behind Bacon’s 276.65 points and Li’s runaway total of 300.85 points.

It’s the first podium appearance of the 21-year-old Vallée’s career at worlds. She’s also got five medals on the Grand Prix circuit, but has never competed at the Olympics.

The tandem of Rylan Wiens of Pike Lake, Sask., and Montreal’s Nathan Zsombor-Murray won Canada’s first diving medal at the worlds with a bronze Tuesday in the men’s 10-metre synchronized event.

Margo Erlam, of Calgary, placed ninth with 246.10 points. 

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